Experiencing Interruptions?

Remains

Streets, ports, and cities continue to move as if nothing has stopped.
Lights still turn on and off. Systems remain in motion.

Something feels as if it has just passed through—unseen, but present in its absence.

Everything appears already in progress, yet nothing reveals where it begins or what has been lost.

  • MFX Films
    Producer
  • Li Hung Wang
    Producer
  • Chih Hao Shen
    Director
  • Chih Hao Shen
    Writer
  • Li Hung Wang
    Key Cast
  • Gemini Studio
    Visual Effects
  • Chih Hao Shen
    Poster Design
  • Chih Hao Shen
    Storyboard Artist
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Hybrid documentary, Environmental, Historical Animated Testimony
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 8, 2026
  • Country of Origin:
    Taiwan
  • Country of Filming:
    Taiwan
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • 42th Asolo Art Film Festival
    Asolo
    Italy
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Chih Hao Shen

Chih Hao Shen is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary creator whose work explores human existence and the fragile relationship between individuals and the worlds they inhabit. Through restrained visual language and poetic storytelling, his films reflect on memory, loss, and the quiet passage of time.

His work has been recognized by international film festivals, including the Rhode Island International Film Festival, In The Palace International Short Film Festival, Fantasporto – Porto International Film Festival, and Asolo Art Film Festival.

His projects have been presented in international industry contexts, including Clermont-Ferrand, Visions du Réel, the Cannes Short Film Corner, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, and Oberhausen.

Selected Works

2026 — YinYang Sea — Documentary / Experimental
2026 — Fragments of Us — Experimental
2026 — 10 Seconds — Animation / Experimental
2026 — Everyone Is Leaving, One by One — Documentary
2025 — The Last Atlantis — Animation / Experimental

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Director Statement

I began with a simple impression: something has already happened, but it is no longer visible.

The film moves through spaces that feel recently lived in—streets, ports, interiors, systems still quietly in motion. Nothing is staged, yet everything feels as if it is continuing from an event that has already passed.

There are no characters, no dialogue, and no defined story. Instead, there are traces that suggest continuity: a world that has not stopped, only shifted beyond its witnesses.

I am less interested in explaining what has occurred than in staying close to what remains in motion after meaning becomes uncertain.

In this uncertain continuity, the film holds onto a sense that something is still unfolding, even if we can no longer locate its origin.